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Moondrop's website describes Amphora as "a peculiar puzzle game that mixes story elements and physics", and there can be no more accurate description of this gorgeous looking game. Guide a young girl into womanhood with shadow puppets and magic. Certainly the thick atmosphere can make things a little unintentionally hilarious at times, but overall Amphora is haunting, beautiful work.
One lonely little slice of bread has a dream... to be perfectly toasted. Too bad getting there is way, way harder than it sounds in this ridiculous physics game from the creators of Surgeon Simulator 2013. Currently in Early Access, I Am Bread can be frustrating, but also charming, hilarious, and a lot of fun if you're patient.
Gain back the colors that were stolen from your land. Solve puzzles to get to the open door and ever closer to the missing colors. Each level is a new trick to figure out and a new way to discover, and new boxes to make sure you're thinking outside of.
Antbassador is a physics platform game by Kevin Zuhn and his team that has been declared the winner of the Ludum Dare 30 72 hour "Connected Worlds" game jam. It stars a giant top hat-wearing finger trying desperately to make a good impression on a colony of ants, and often failing. The QWOP-style comedy of political frustrations may not be for everyone, but it has more than it's fair share of hilarious ant-tics.
Late one night while your mother is sleeping, something wakes you up. Now, just two years old, and alone save for your intrepid teddy-bear, you'll need to take a surreal and terrifying journey where you can't always trust what you see, but everything is full of meaning, in this gorgeous indie horror adventure.
A fantastic art game with an arresting pixel-based art style, this physics-based platformer follows a rebel searching for their lost love in an alien-infested world. But it's not about the aliens. It's about survival, loneliness, and the sacrifices we make for those we love.
It's tough to be a little element. You're at the mercy of every current of wind and lava flow on the block. Fortunately for the four elements in Element4l, they're bound together as a single entity and can switch as easily as you or I eat a whole bar of chocolate (i.e. instantly). This soothing but challenging arcade game from I-Illusions puts you in charge of those transformations, utilizing them as efficiently as you can in order to move through each stage safely.
It's tough to be a little element. You're at the mercy of every current of wind and lava flow on the block. Fortunately for the four elements in Element4l, they're bound together as a single entity and can switch as easily as you or I eat a whole bar of chocolate (i.e. instantly). This soothing but challenging arcade game from I-Illusions puts you in charge of those transformations, utilizing them as efficiently as you can in order to move through each stage safely.
In the mood for something challenging and aesthetically pleasing? From the imagination of Pawel Mogila springs a new physics-based puzzle adventure game, Grimind. Pawel chose to give Grimind a horror twist, but forget the standard rattling chains, apparitions out of the corner of your eye, and overused scream clichés, this is a beautifully-colored adventure game with a physics engine serving up the puzzles.
Baby it's cold outside, but with your Little Inferno fireplace, you can stay warm and entertained forever... as long as you don't run out of things to burn. The Tomorrow Corporation brings a unique, quirky, and gorgeously addictive indie game that's part physics puzzle, and part adventure, all without leaving your hearth. Who really needs the world outdoors anyway? What could it possibly have to offer... ?
Created by Colin Northway (Fantastic Contraption) and Sarah Northway (Rebuild) with art by Thomas Shahan, this gorgeous physics game feels like a vertebrate version of World of Goo with the building-centric gameplay of Fantastic Contraption. Using the simple tools of legs and muscles, you must help Quozzle on her quest to find her family as she attempts to traverse terrain as twisted and diverse as you can imagine. How are you going to make it over the next hill? Maybe by attaching two dozen legs to Quozzle's eye and strapping them all together with muscles? Why not, let's give it a shot!
Take one color-coded multipurpose vehicle, add a variety of shapes scattered all about, then throw in the ability to mess with gravity in just about every way possible. The result? Colour Bind, a brand new physics-based indie puzzle game from Finn Morgan. Controlling a simple little car (two wheels on a chasis, basically), you have the pleasure of working through dozens of levels as you flip switches and change gravity so you can reach the exit. Best of all, Colour Bind was built with old school sensibilities in mind, meaning you'll be rewarded for exploration and challenged with difficult levels from beginning to end. Hooray!
Originally developed by Kepuli Games for the 7 Day FPS Challenge, then polished up to win 2nd in the Assembly GameDev Competition, Force: Leashed is a first-person gravity-based physics puzzle game. It combines the structure of the Quake engine with the mechanics of Auditorium and the overall design sense of Portal (if GLaDOS never spoke and handed out gravity guns). And despite the title, Jar Jar doesn't show up once. That's gotta be worth half a point right there.
It all begins with an innocent little robot drifting through a leaky cave. It all ends with... well, a lot more than that. Talawa Games' Unmechanical is a physics-heavy action puzzle game where you control a round 'bot flying through an underground factory, trying to find his way back to the surface. It looks like something unsettling happened here not too long ago, judging from the rockslides and blocked passages and all. But you don't have time to hover and ponder, you just want to get out. And as you soon discover, you're not exactly alone down here...
What could be worse than some cretin named Big (who also happens to be your brother) stealing the pair of mystical underpants left by your departed grandfather? Nothing, as far as the folks at Black Pants Studio are concerned. With the team's first release, the sandbox-oriented action and physics game Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers, we get to see just what happens when you give a guy a raygun, a grapple-device, and unlimited rockets, then turn him loose in a sun-parched ruined desert world to find his pants-thieving brother. To put if briefly: a whole lotta rocks will get sliced, tossed, juggled, and destroyed.
It is up to a green cosmic wanderer with a chain grapple arm to rescue some grounded birds from certain destruction in this retro adventure grapple game. Ladd Spencer (think classic grapple game...) may have had it rough, but the Chain Champ here has to swing over boiling lava pits, dodge pitfalls, and focus on collapsing grapple surfaces. A quick casual game packed with loads of gameplay, chiptune sound effects, and helpless birds to keep you swinging during a lazy afternoon.
We are not alone. Life has been discovered on Mars, but it's nothing like we ever expected to encounter. In this gorgeous, one-of-a-kind moody action adventure game for iOS, you'll journey deep into the red planet and uncover the secrets buried within its soil. Discover new life forms and challenging puzzles that force you to use the environment to your advantage as you help the planet grow... and ultimately decide its fate.
Science has proven that water physics are some of the most entertaining gameplay mechanisms ever created. Forget things like realistic friction models, voxels, endlessly generating worlds, and being able to rewind time. Capturing, deploying, and just messing around with gooey water is where it's at. Vessel, a new steampunk puzzle platformer from Strange Loop Games, builds most of its gameplay around liquids, using them as both mindlessly flowing matter and as something you probably never expected water to do: become semi-intelligent!
A crazy, multiplayer romp through a visually lush game featuring three moderately-mad fantasy characters with their own unique abilities? Show us where to sign and we'll be there! Actually, now that you mention it, Trine 2 happens to be all of the things described above, plus a whole lot more. It's got action, it's got physics puzzles, it's got both single- and online multiplayer modes, and it's got a sense of humor that will probably remind you of Magicka. It's a modern-day version of The Lost Vikings, and any gamer will be proud to experience the world Trine 2 has to offer!
Several years in the making, the darkly atmospheric (and strangely realistic) platform game LIMBO has finally migrated from console download to the PC ecosphere.Crafted by Danish studio Playdead, LIMBO drops you in a shadowy world filled with dangers, immensely difficult puzzles, and more ways to die than you would really want to count. It's an incredibly stylistic and engaging game, one that just about any player can pick up and enjoy from beginning to end.
A space ship. An explosion. An escape pod. A crash. It's just you and an alien planet replete with jungle creatures who aggressively attack you, lone guy in a well-equipped spacesuit. Capsized drops you in an unfamiliar world and gives you just a few tools to survive. Fortunately, a grappling hook and a number of guns happens to be amongst these tools, the former of which is handy not only for swinging around and pulling yourself up ledges, but for grabbing and moving obstacles. Other than that, you really have to rely on your wits in this gorgeously-illustrated but challenging physics/action game.
Following in the tradition of the classic sandbox games (Sand Sand Sand and Powder Game), The Powder Toy by HardWIRED is a small download which stretches the boundaries of what is possible with a few simple elements. In fact, you can do almost anything with it, the only limit is your imagination.
Ready for another game of ambiance and intrigue from Nifflas? NightSky is the latest release from the designer/artist known for creating enchanting atmospheric settings in his games, and this one certainly doesn't disappoint. It's simpler and more streamlined than Knytt Stories, but there's no shortage of challenge or variety to be had!
In The Ball, a first person 3D adventure/puzzle game, you play an unnamed archaeologist who accidentally falls into an ancient system of ruins during a dig. You discover a gigantic metallic orb that you must use to solve puzzles and destroy underworld enemies, all while working through ancient temples trying to find a way out!
Oh, brains. You are as delicious (to zombies) as you are useful (to anyone running from zombies). You're also apparently quite explodable, as evidenced in this colorful cartoon-like physics game BrainSplode!. Created by Rust Red Games, all you've got is a cannon, some highly-useful missiles, and a few mid-air power-ups that help you control things. Oh, and an inexplicable hatred of squishy pink brains.
And Yet It Moves, the simple but marvelous indie release from Broken Rules, will reignite your love for video games. That, or it will cause you to shake with anger as you replay the same part of the game for the tenth time. It might even do both! The physics-centric platform adventure employs the familiar "world tilting" mechanic that allows you to rotate the entire game environment in 90 degree increments. And Yet It Moves then proceeds to do crazy and wonderful things with this, allowing you to explore a universe as strange as it is satisfying.
Daniel wakes up on the floor of an ancient castle, unable to remember anything but his name... unfortunate for him since his past might be out to get them. Frictional Games delivers one of the most tense and frightening horror titles in a long time, using superb atmosphere and physics controls to plunge you into a story you won't soon forget... assuming you survive.
There's something hidden in a mine deep beneath the ice in remote Greenland. Phillip follows a map to the location despite a letter from his missing father begging him to burn the documents he discovers. Phillip wants to find out what obsession could have taken his father from his family all those years ago. Instead, he may find more than he could ever be prepared for in Frictional Games' survival horror series about dark and secrets. What you can't see can hurt you.
On the list of things that are more useful in video games than they are in the real world, grappling hooks are certainly near the top. Acquiring a grappling hook in the real world is positively thrilling, until you start thinking of ways you can actually (and legally) use it. Fortunately, the aptly-titled Grappling Hook isn't grounded in reality. The puzzle platformer from SpeedRunGames is filled with 22 levels of quick-thinking grappling goodness that is sure to keep you zooming around for hours.
Stardrone is a genre mashup download game, featuring a mix of elements including arcade action, pinball, breakout, gravitational physics and collect-the-objects. Although it might sound a little confusing, the game simply boils down to you (a ball) lighting up stars to reach an objective, and it's remarkably fun to play!


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Trailing the untapped potential of sci-fi in the Holy Land
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Hartley, Janet M (2008) Russia, 1762-1825: military power, the state, and the people. Studies in military history and international affairs . Praeger, Westport, UK. ISBN 9780275978716
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A study of the Russian Empire at the peak of its military power and success, this book examines how a country with none of the obvious trappings of modernization was able to sustain the level of military effort and support the largest standing army in Europe, along with the resulting strain on state and society. A study of the Russian Empire at the peak of its military power and success (1762-1825), this important book examines how a country with none of the obvious trappings of modernization was able to significantly expand its territory. Russia's military and naval victories culminated in the triumphal entrance of Russian forces into Paris in 1814 in celebration of the defeat of Napoleon. Hartley's treatment is wide-ranging and discusses many aspects of the nature of the Russian state and society-not merely issues such as recruitment, but also institutional, legal, and fiscal structures of the state, the unique nature of Russian industrialization and social organization at the urban and village level, as well as the impact on cultural life. She covers the reign of two of Russia's most prominent rulers: Catherine II (1762-1796) and Alexander I (1801-25). How could a country lacking modernized structures-political, institutional, social, fiscal, economic, industrial, and cultural-sustain this level of military effort and support the largest standing army in Europe? What impact did the strain of this commitment of men and money, including the invasion of 1812, have on the state and society-particularly on those who were either conscripted or the dependents they left behind? Despite the success of the Russian state, by 1825 the strains would become almost unsustainable.
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Well, if this is what she's used to, I think, then she can handle lunch with me. There are those who would tell her it'll just be one more hour spent with the aft part of a horse.
The only danger might be nodding off into her plate -- as one of a handful of professional braiders who work the American Horse Show Association circuit in the Southwest, Romero keeps a seriously nocturnal schedule. "I usually work from 8 at night to 5 in the morning," she says. "That's ideal for me, because then the grooms show up, and the Mexican polka music starts, really loud, and they start pulling horses out of the stalls to lunge them and bathe them. Plus, they tow your car. So when the sun comes up, you've got to be gone."
But giving horses traditional 'dos for hunter/jumper competition is seasonal, feast-or-famine work, and Romero's on a break at the moment, spending time at the home she shares with her mom in the Valley. When she's working, she's on the road, usually up and down the Southern California coast. "I work mostly San Diego, right by the Del Mar racetrack -- there's a big horse-show facility there -- San Juan Capistrano, Huntington Beach, Burbank, Santa Barbara, and I've gone as far as Pebble Beach." She also works the major show in Indio, California, and, closer to home, shows in Scottsdale and Tucson. The schedule is harsh, the work is physically demanding, the impact on her social life considerable.
So I ask Romero, as we wait for our lunches at Eddie Matney's, how she happened into this, surely one of the more specialized occupations in our society. She launches into her tale. As is so often the case, it has a lot to do with her father.
"I started riding with my father when I was 6," says the New Jersey native. A Texaco engineer and first-generation American -- from a Cuban father and Puerto Rican mother -- her father was a "kind of eccentric" man who had grown up poor, but cultivated an interest in travel, wine, horses and other such swanky pursuits. "He was in the equestrian club at NYU," Romero says. "He was into historical stuff. He liked to wear the outfit. He was wearing a cravat to go trail riding with me in the peach orchard. It was sort of embarrassing at the time, but now I think it's really cool that he was like that, and not like the other fathers who were watching football. He was riding with me on the weekends."
A salad topped with ahi tuna is placed in front of Romero, while I get an offbeat special, the Moroccan fish and chips -- pollock with Moroccan spices, French fries and mango tartar sauce. We strap on the feedbag, as it were, and Romero continues her story.
"We moved to Saudi Arabia for three years," she says, "and we even rode there" -- Arabian horses, natch. But it was when Romero and her family returned home that her equestrian interests got more serious. "When I was a teenager, a trainer got ahold of us, and that's what happens," she says. "Trainers put pressure on their clients to go to horse shows. So as a teenager, that's what I got wrapped up in. I didn't realize that I didn't really have a chance of winning on my little quarter horse compared to the Du Pont descendants I was riding against. It's very political, who can afford the most expensive horse, and who comes from a certain trainer. It's a very political thing. Even now."
Romero's father died when she 14, and at 16 she quit hunter/jumper competition. "My mother [a teacher] continued in it with me for a while; she would drive me an hour each way in the snow," she recalls. "When I quit, she was so relieved. Not only financially, but just her driving me every day, and sitting there reading her book while I rode, and then I'd cry when it didn't go well. It was just very high-pressure and very competitive. And I started having injuries -- I had two concussions in two years, and broken wrists, you know. There's all this pressure on the kids. You have to have the best horse, you have to keep upgrading, you have to have the best clothes, you have to stay thin, you have to, you know, fit in with these kids who are really doing it. So I discovered boys, and I quit."


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I was raised on the Otis Redding version. It took me a long time to realize it is the same song. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm -- The Chairman of the Board
Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry -- Frank. The best saloon singer ever. My Dad owned a saloon. I used to listen to the guys at the bar talk to my father, mostly about failed love and bad relationships. Frank Sinatra summed those feelings up so perfectly in his saloon songs like this one.
When I Take My Sugar to Tea -- Frank A little more upbeat. Definitely not a crying in your beer kinda song. But still. Frank.
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EAST CHICAGO, IND.–Primary Energy Inc. and Duke/Fluor Daniel (D/FD) today announced that they have signed an agreement to develop, engineer and construct a blast furnace gas-fired cogeneration facility at LTV's East Chicago plant. The plant, to be built at LTV's Indiana Harbor Works, will generate 50 megawatts of energy primarily from byproduct fuels but also will use some natural gas. The project cost is estimated at $60 million and is scheduled to begin construction in the spring of 2000 with completion in fall 2001. "This is yet another example of Primary Energy and D/FD's collective commitment to find solutions to customers' needs in the domestic energy market," said Clarence Ray, president of Duke/Fluor Daniel. This project will enable Primary Energy, a subsidiary of NiSource Inc., to generate electricity by using existing byproduct fuels. The new cogeneration facility is designed to reduce operating costs and provide a reliable, low-cost source of electric power for LTV. LTV will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of Primary Energy's facility. "Primary Energy has set a standard of service based on our customers' expectations that we will help them control energy costs," said Gary Neale, NiSource, Inc. chairman, president and chief executive officer. "This project allows for the expansion of clean power technologies without construction of significant new infrastructure," said Joe Turner, president of Primary Energy. "In addition, the existing electric capacity that will be freed up from the system will be utilized by Northern Indiana Public Service Company's growing customer base throughout northern Indiana." This partnership between Primary Energy and D/FD has resulted in four projects to date and more than 850 megawatts of generating capacity. Additional facilities previously developed by Primary Energy and with EPC services provided by D/FD include: LTV is a leading producer of value-added flat-rolled steel for demanding applications in the automotive, appliance and electrical-equipment industries. LTV is also the leading producer of welded tube products, bimetallic wire, and a major manufacturer of pre-engineered metal buildings. Primary Energy, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of NiSource Inc., invests in and manages projects that optimize energy productivity, while reducing operating costs for large, energy-intensive industrial and commercial complexes. Primary Energy specializes in on-site electric and steam-generating facilities and acts with strong customer focus to assure its customers' objectives are being met. Primary Energy currently has 393 MW of generation and has contracts for an additional 575 MWs. Target markets include the steel, refining, chemical, food products and pulp and paper industries in North America. Information about Primary Energy is available via the Internet at www.primaryenergy.com. NiSource Inc. (NYSE:NI) is a holding company whose primary business is the distribution of electricity, natural gas and water in the Midwest and Northeast United States. The company also markets utility services and customer-focused resource solutions along a corridor stretching from Texas to Maine. Additional information may be accessed on the Internet at www.nisource.com. Duke/Fluor Daniel, formed in 1989 by Duke Energy Corporation and Fluor Daniel, Inc. provides comprehensive engineering, procurement, construction and operating plant services for fossil-fueled electric power generation facilities worldwide. Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE: DUK) is a global energy company with more than $29 billion in assets. Headquartered in Charlotte, the company reaches into more than 50 countries producing energy, transporting energy, marketing energy and providing energy services. In the United States, Duke Energy companies provide electric service to approximately two million customers in North Carolina and South Carolina; operate interstate pipelines that deliver natural gas to various regions of the country; and are leading marketers of electricity, natural gas and natural gas liquids. Additional information about the company is available on the internet at: www.duke-energy.com. Fluor Daniel Inc. is the engineering, procurement and construction subsidiary of Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR). In 1999 Fluor Corp. revenues were $12.4 billion. Additional information on Fluor Corp. is available on the Internet at: www.fluor.com.
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Process - or a tool set?
There is a lot of conversation about process and tools on this forum.
Most of which is very enlightening and helpful. It is especially nice
to get insight prior to a purchase, not have to do the same research
someone else has already gathered, and have the benefit of industry
leader's experience. But I sense the very natural desire to find the
"perfect" application or process. I think it is important to not get
too intrenched and approach this as more modular.
In the mid eighties Michael Gerber wrote a great book called "The E-
myth Revisited". One of the stronger take aways from that book is to
refine your process and institutionalize it across the organization.
He attributes much of McDonald's success to the refinement of process
and the consistency with which they implemented it.
There are, however, two common misinterpretations of Mr Gerber's
writings. The first is that the process is static. To
institutionalize process is dangerous, to not regularly question a
process is irresponsible. Constant challenge and refinement of the
process is an integral part of McDonald's formula. Second, designers
are problem solvers not widget makers (at least I hope most of us
are). A rote design process will become problematic.
I might suggest, as many already practice, that not only in design
but also in design research, having a set of tools that can be mixed
and matched with a diverse staff, is a better arrangement. Though
many projects may seem to have the same or similar criteria, it is
worth the time to evaluate methods, tools and process for each
project, just as we do with design constraints, goals and objectives.
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Clarene Reid, 65, of Ligonier, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, April 7, 2012, at her residence. She was born Sept. 27, 1946, in Goshen, to Clair W. and Phyllis A. (Bitner) Archer. On Aug. 1, 1965, in Cromwell, she married Paul A. Reid, who survives in Ligonier.
Mouse Loy, left, and Don Shearer, right, talk about old times at the Leatherneck Coffee Club Breakfast Saturday in the Columbia City VFW in Columbia City. Shearer is wearing a uniform that is similar to his original "satine" Marine uniform he wore in Vietnam in 1963. Twenty-six Whitley County marines attended the event. Loy eats from his original mess kit and drinks coffee from his military-issued canteen cup. The group has a chicken barbecue fundraiser scheduled for May 19 at Wal-Mart and NAPA, both located in Columbia City.
COLUMBIA CITY – The Whitley County Chamber of Commerce will host its annual event designed to shine the spotlight on area businesses and non-profit organizations.
The Whitley County Chamber of Commerce's Whitley County Expo begins Saturday at 9 a.m. continuing until 3 p.m. at Indian Springs Middle School, just south of Columbia City on Ind. 9.
Admission and parking are free.
The event will include door prizes and entertainment. A special section promoting the event is inserted in today's The Post & Mail.
COLUMBIA CITY — Beds And Britches, Etc. (B.A.B.E.) of Whitley County is having an unusual fundraising campaign that has baby bottles being filled with money.
"April is our biggest fundraising month all year," said Shawn Ellis, executive director of B.A.B.E. "We have 17 churches and many banks all over Whitley County collecting money in our baby bottles for our program."
Several of tonight's events have been cancelled tonight due to weather.
Whitko's home baseball and softball games, Columbia City's game at Wawasee and Col. City's track meet have all been confirmed to be cancelled.
COLUMBIA CITY — Columbia City's softball team opened its season in prime fashion Monday night, hosting Marion in a perfect 10-0 win.
The game was cut short after the Lady Eagles took a 10-0 lead in the fifth inning after a run by junior Alyssa Brandt.
Senior Hannah Schnorr boosted the score in the third inning with a grand slam to take an 8-0 lead.
Columbia City not only put out a strong offensive performance by senior Allie Vodde, who not only pitched a shut-out, but along with her teammates didn't allow a single Marion runner on base.
Vodde had 10 strikeouts on 16 at bats.
Aleasia Johnson, 3, is happy to find a camouflage egg that wins a prize at the first annual mEGGa Hunt at Churubusco Park Saturday. —— CHURUBUSCO — Prizes, family fun and community love just about sums up what was happening Saturday afternoon at Churubusco Town Park. More than 600 people attended the first annual mEGGa Hunt sponsored by Christ Community Church. "We hid 8,000 eggs today and with this big of a turn-out we'll have to have twice as many next year," said Nathan VanHorn, member of CCC.
CHURUBUSCO — Safe routes to school is a high priority to the Churubusco Town Council. Madalyn Sade-Bartl, Churubusco's clerk/treasurer, and Jeremy Hart, town supervisor, began looking into a grant from the State of Indiana worth $250,000. That money would be used for infrastructure projects and $75,000 is available for non-infrastructure projects to construct safe routes to school for elementary and middle school-aged children. "Funding is disbursed on a reimbursed basis," said Sade-Bartl.
Editor's Note: The following is the final segment of a three-part series on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and the impact the event is having today on a local family. —— COLUMBIA CITY — A century after Antoine Temmerman purchased a ticket for the ill-fated maiden voyage of the HMS Titanic, his granddaughter Gail Morris was sent an invitation. The correspondence came a few weeks ago, inviting Morris to participate in the memorial activities on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic called "100 Years of Exhibition."
Editor's Note: The following is the second of a three-part series on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and the impact the event is having today on a local family. —— COLUMBIA CITY — After Antoine Temmerman and Jean Scheerlink were reunited in Detroit, Scheerlink and the two other men who hid with him on the lifeboat, went to work laying brick sidewalks in Detroit. Temmerman took a job with the Ford Motor Company, and was eventually transferred to Defiance, Ohio. Scheerlink also began telling stories of his voyage on the Titanic.


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"all the blog thing has ever done for me is given me lots of money, freedom, job security, and personal sovereignty" — Hugh Macleod
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"all the blog thing has ever done for me is given me lots of money, freedom, job security, and personal sovereignty" — Hugh Macleod
Thanks to Damien for the quote
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Nicole Simon recently commented on stereotypes and the kerfulle they generated. I have a slightly different take and its all due to Jack.
First off, Jack is a friend of mine from Cork City. He's a builder. Now what picture does that generate in your mind? I've just told you what he does and where he lives, so some sort of stereotype is probably forming in your mind… and he is one of the reasons why I don't believe in that a stereotype can ever be true.
When I tell you that I first met him when we were performing in an opera together and that we bumped in to each other at "Thailand : What's Love got to do with it" and that thanks to him I ended up chatting with the play's writer and cast afterwards, I ask you; has your image of him changed? And the conversation about the play the group had is sort of the foundation of this post.
It's easier to approach any stereotype from fiction, after all, as Kermit said, "It's not easy being green". And when it comes to a play, I've been on all three sides, audience, performer and director. All visual and audio media rely to some part on established stereotypes, be it using them or forcing a re-evaluation of them. To put is simply, sometimes they are necessary as a replacement to character set-up.
For example in all television adverts, Dads are useless in a kitchen, women know nothing about cars, no one knows what a tracker mortgage is and all absorbent products work wonderfully with blue liquids. Why? Well apart from the fact that there are only 12 types of advertising, there is only 30 seconds to make a memorable pitch. As anyone seeking a venture capitalist will tell you that 30 seconds is a very short time to get attention and make your point.
In fact, given the amount of time you have to make your point, you may have to rely, in part, on an established stereotype.
In short attention span order…
1) picture including print advertising,
2) audio / radio advertising,
3) televisual media advertising,
4) newspaper article,
5) one act play,
6) magazine article or profile,
7) full length play,
7) non-serial television programme,
8) movie
9) serialised television programme with recurring casts
10) books and series of books.
Yes, its not exhaustive and there is overlap. The issue which triggered Nicole Simon's post was that of a site name and logo. In theory that counts as part of the advertising end of the scale. However a company logo and persona lasts much longer than 30 seconds. If Mister Wong was a background character in an advert, he might not have been noticed let alone triggered a response. But combine a non-complementary stereotype and make it the logo… then its worse. No English man would object to the Jeeves image projected by AskJeeves.com (that was). Imagine the Irish stereotype which would be generated? (Probably something like a drunken Podge?) Is Tony Soprano a genuine reflection of an Italian American stereotype or is he objectionable? At first sight … maybe. However time allows depth that a company logo does not have.
But time in a one act play is not a luxury.
Mairtín de Cógáin in "Thailand…" plays Declan, an Irish tourist, well, visiting the sex tourism of Thailand. (The play was a fund-raiser for an anti sex trafficking charity and took place in the Unitarian Church… an odd juxtaposition). I'm not going to give you a review of the play (wonderful) or the acting ability (brilliant) but of the character created.
Declan wears a Hawaiian style shirt and shorts… telling the story dressed as a tourist in still over there. Declan had a Cork inner city (maybe slightly North side) accent.
The director in me agrees with the costume choice, but ask Jack asked… what would your reaction be if Declan was wearing a business suit? Or a tracksuit and cap? That simple costume change will change that audiences assumptions of Declan and his background. And switching the accent to Montenotte or Mayfield would cause a change in the character in the audience's eye.
And the question is… Why?
Declan is played as an innocent. He even argues that by using these prostitutes, he is actually helping the economy destroyed by the tsunami in 2004. And Declan's more or less believed. Using the clothing as example, would you believe him as an innocent in this case wearing a tracksuit? And what about a business suit?
Now ask yourself… why?
An advantage Jack has over me is that on short term jobs he ends up everywhere and meets everyone. He has met the most ignorant, clueless but educated people, and he has met the most informed, politically aware but unschooled people. The stereotypes are inaccurate, but the assumptions remain to keep the stereotype alive.
In the case of the play, talking to Brian Desmond, the founder of "Be Your Own Banana" Theatre Company he pointed out that there is about 40 minutes of unused script from early drafts of the play. And that they tried out different voices, from high to low and everything in-between. Some "voices" just stopped it; killed the humour dead.
Well you just couldn't imagine the owner of that voice saying that.
So in podcasts and other media, ask yourself… did they choose that voice? And Why?
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I posted earlier about Thomas Scott's Real World Racer game where you take a Google map satellite image of a city and create a race track course from the image and then race pixel cars through the streets.
Well, the "Cork, Ireland: Twisty Island Dash" course has been added! – Thanks Tom.
You race from the new UCC extensions to the College of Commerce. I think its a legal route as well. I can see it being tried out on bike for the real Ride It Like You Stole It experience. Yellow (and Red & White) jersey anyone?
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Torchwood? We're beyond the government, outside the United Nations, second left over the flyover, straight on at Budgens, right at the lights then first left by the Qwik-Save.
The BBC show Dead Ringers did a parody of the BBC show Torchwood. Oddly, the spoof make sense of its source material. If nothing else it explains the plot holes…
No idea if this will stay live for long.
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Crap game but… Thomas Scott created a Real World Racer game. Its actually quite an inspired Google map hack.
Take the satellite image level of a city, create a track layout… and race pixel cars through the streets. No sound effects but as the game says "for maximum enjoyment, make "bvvv, bvvvvv" noises as you accelerate and "EEEEE" noises as you turn".
I suspect its impossible to win, but who wants to be the first to lay out the Morrison Island (Cork City's Island) track.
Update : The "Cork, Ireland: Twisty Island Dash" course has been added! – Thanks Tom.
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When you see an advert titled See the 'Transformers' movie for free! you know there has to be a catch…
And there is.
Unless you want to go to Balbriggan, Carlow, Clonakilty, Enniscorthy, Lifford, Longford, Monaghan, Naas, Westport or Youghal, you don't need apply.
Of course a certain blogger already got to see it for free.
Me? Jealous? Oh yeah!
I'm planning for a Sunday viewing.
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Dear Frank,
Thanks for telling me about the open call for an advert in Cork. As you said, the producers (who don't seem to have a website) wanted people to hug…
So I showed up to the Clarion (and thanks for the Wi-Fi) and registered. Since the aim was to hug, and someone else have come in to register at the same time… get got put together. Hello Irene on the off chance that you do the search for the blog.
This was my giggly-ist audition ever! We kept setting each other off. I may have blown the audition, but I'm in the best mood ever. And all without the use of chocolate!
On the off chance that I get a call (too many giggles?), I'll let you know.
take care,
I read in the Economist an interesting article on record labels trying to get cash streams other than selling music and it seems that Prince has gone one further…
He is due to give away his new album with the Mail on Sunday tomorrow. I expect it will be, oh, 5 seconds before one is on sale on e-bay to get to all those fans in other countries.
I assumed it was going to be a UK only event… then I saw the adverts on Irish telly… he's releasing it over here too. So who will be first with the LouderVoice review?
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I can't believe that Una missed this in her articles of the day link a few days back.
The first link is an article in Business Week about the importance of branding. Clearly a catchy name can make or break a product. Which brings me to Navan, a town in County Meath, Ireland, and I suppose Navan Man.
What has this got to do with branding? Well in the Business Week article, they mention Navan. Or rather Navan, which is apparently a "fusion of natural black vanilla from Madagascar with refined French cognacs" (probably a Grand Marnier blend) and even is part of Hevan; equal parts Navan and Hennessy VOSP. There's even a review of the drink available.
I've been looking at the Navanworld (which sounds like a scary nightclub, and I worked in the town for a while) website, and I can't figure out where the name came from.
Having said that, imagine drinks based on Navan Man?
Did they even search the name before they used it?
And if they did were they thinking Brosnan, Ó hEochagáin or Tiernan? Given the Black Books connection to drink, it's got to be Dylan Moran that they had in mind.
I wonder if they smell of vanilla and cognac now?
take care,
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"Yes, there is a difference between virile and viral!"
Overheard telephone conversation. Didn't get to find out which one was the right one.
I'm sure that the guys of "Inside PR" never covered that in their "Inside PRoper English" slot.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Apllication level checkpointing tools. From: neeraj_at_[hidden] Date: 2009-06-30 09:00:20
Dear Mohamed,
Is there some checkpointing software for interconnect other than tcp say IB or Myrinet?
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Dear Kritiraj, You can use DMTCP http://sourceforge.net/projects/dmtcp
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> > Daer All, > I have successfully comfigure OPENMPI with BLCR and id some > test. hover, i now want to do some testing with an Application Level > checkpointng tools. I tried using libckpt but could not install it. > > Do anyone of you know any open source application level > checkpointing tools available that i can install and test with > openmpi? > > Thank you > > Regards, > > Raj > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users_at_[hidden] > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
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When one of the world's most respected moral leaders speaks about one of modern history's greatest crimes, we are summoned to pay attention and think about the issues raised. I refer to South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who explained in London's The Observer last Sunday why, at the last minute, he cancelled his participation in a "leadership summit" that also included former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He said that Blair's joining U.S. President George W. Bush to attack Iraq in 2003 was an immoral act and an immense failure of leadership, based on a lie that has had huge and continuing negative consequences for the entire world.
Tutu's stature will spur the debate about whether Bush, Blair and other senior officials should be held accountable for the destruction that they unleashed in invading Iraq. He framed his comments in the context of the moral responsibility of leaders, and not only the specific case of the Iraq invasion, which is an excellent case study in the terrible things that happen when poor leadership prevails.
This dearth is also being highlighted across the Middle East these days in the widespread emphasis on putting on trial those Arab officials who were responsible for so much mismanagement, corruption, human rights abuses and official violence before they were overthrown by popular demonstrations or armed rebellion. Angry and abused Arab citizens not only want to overthrow their leaders; they want to hold them accountable for their actions, so that future leaders do not misbehave as easily. The global community has tried to come to grips with this by creating the International Criminal Court and other special tribunals to try officials who acted criminally, aiming both to punish past criminals and deter future ones.
Tutu reminds us that looking to a better future is difficult to do unless the grievances of the past are acknowledged and redressed in a legitimate manner. He rightly criticizes Blair and Bush for three things: They premised their attack on Iraq on the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; the invasion and war "destabilized and polarized the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history"; and they failed the moral test of leaders to tell the truth, for, as he wrote, "if leaders may lie, then who should tell the truth?"
Tutu also raised the compelling issue of double standards, whereby some Third World leaders are sent to the International Criminal Court, others are assassinated and others such as Blair join the international speakers' circuit.
The staggering cost of the Iraq war cannot only be calculated in the ravages of the recent past (over 110,000 Iraqis dead, millions made refugees or internally displaced, some 4,500 Americans killed and more than 32,000 wounded), but also in the brutal forces that the war unleashed. The Shiite-Sunni tensions that now dominate much of the Middle East, the latest generation of Al-Qaeda-like Salafist terrorists operating across many borders, and the fragmentation of centralized states in favor of sectarian rivalries are three significant negative phenomena exacerbated and widely disseminated by the Iraq war.
Tutu criticizes Blair for such material and political consequences of the Iraq war, but returns to his point that "leadership and morality are indivisible. Good leaders are the custodians of morality. The question is not whether Saddam Hussein was good or bad or how many of his people he massacred. The point is that Mr Bush and Mr Blair should not have allowed themselves to stoop to his immoral level. If it is acceptable for leaders to take drastic action on the basis of a lie, without an acknowledgement or an apology when they are found out, what should we teach our children?"
It is easy for some leaders and officials in the Western world with low ethics, like Bush, Blair, Condoleezza Rice or Dick Cheney, to carry out their murderous deeds and then turn their backs and claim that they acted for freedom. The truth is, they acted on the basis of lies and their low-class leadership skills. They can fool many of their own ignorant countrymen and women with their combination of swagger and deception, but the world will not be so easily duped.
Tutu reminds us and them that morality, leadership and accountability are deeply linked in the minds of ordinary men and women across the world. Tutu himself practiced what he preaches, when he extended his "humblest and sincerest apologies" to the summit organizers, speakers and delegates for his last-minute decision not to attend. He was prepared to apologize for that slight misdeed that merely inconvenienced or disappointed some people at the event, in that way setting an example that still escapes the worldviews of self-engrossed politicians who unleash their criminal deeds on a global scale with total impunity.
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Some people say there was heaven and hell, others think about soul, some also believes in reincarnation.. how about you? what do you think of it? what will you do if this is the end of everything?
Hi Kris - here is a link to a Sky Burial from the BBC.
WARNING: this may not be to everyone's liking. However I think there is a certain majesty to it.
Ok fixed it.
they were lazy digging or making fire..
i'd read one of that sky burial, a documentary., but i prefer to be cremate not being eaten..
Somehow, I suspect that when "the end of everything" arrives (which could be any day now; I've heard that it's December 21 of this year, which means I can put off buying Xmas presents) I won't do much of anything.
Dale - good news! That has been canceled!!
We're good to go for another 5700-year cycle!
@Micmic Custodio
Death is the end of the creature that died, not the death of everything. Fail. You might want to visit the 'Atheists and water' thread. The opening argument is a lot like yours.
my apology for that, i should be more careful about asking things next time, but what i mean is "the death is the end your everything" something like that.,
So it becomes, "Death is the end of your everything." That's an improvement but still incorrect.
Your death is the irreversible end of your consciousness. It's not the end of your everything.
Your actions and words are part of 'your everything' and they survive the death of the consciousness that produced them. Shakespeare, Mozart, Galileo, Curie, and Einstein are all dead, but not the results of their having lived.
We come from nothing. We have one brief life to marvel at the universe and give something to those who will outlive us. Then we close our eyes forever and go back to nothing.
That sounds splendid. It makes each human life all the more precious and valuable.
that was so clear to me, thanks for correcting it., i learned something from that.. a big CHECK!
You got it: "Living is everything." So live it up.
"Life is worth living, especially if you're alive."
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I will save pictures from my gmail (app) and they will appear in my downloads folder (internal memory) for a couple of days. Then out of nowhere they disappear and are nowhere to be found. Has anyone else had this happen? Ne1 know the problem/solution?
Hey there and welcome to android forums! Sorry to hear about your troubles, have you used a file manager to see if its actually physically still there? Perhaps use the web version to see if it makes any difference? I've moved this into the s4 forums as well.
Thank you for the welcome I have checked the file manager and they are not there. I will attempt using the web version and see if it happens again.
I've never really downloaded from the app itself, but if you download from the Web it shouldn't disappear
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FEB 01, 2013 4:00a ET
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Brewers quite possibly have the best catching duo in baseball.
On one hand that's a great thing, on the other, it's creating a problem because both were asked to represent their countries in the World Baseball Classic. Jonathan Lucroy will play for Team USA and Martin Maldonado for Puerto Rico, leaving Milwaukee without both catchers for the majority of spring training.
"I would much rather have our catchers there catching these guys, no doubt," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said while in Milwaukee last weekend. "I think it's really important."
Maybe more important this year because of the mix of inexperienced pitchers in the rotation and newly acquired pitchers in the bullpen. Though time spent together between a pitcher and catcher is valuable, Lucroy isn't worried about it and has already prepared for his time away.
His plan is to utilize the batteries' extra week at the beginning of spring training to get a lot of work done. There's also a chance that the United States or Puerto Rico will be eliminated early, thus returning one of the two catchers
"I've already talked to the guys, the guys that we got in the offseason," Lucroy said. "I talked to them about getting together early in spring training to talk things over and catch some bullpens so I will be ready."
But until then, who's the team's third or even fourth catcher?
"Now don't ask me that question," Roenicke said, joking. "We don't know."
The five other catchers in big league camp – Dayton Buller, Anderson De La Rosa, Blake Lalli, Rafael Neda and Adam Weisenburger – have played a total of six games in the big leagues. All six were by the 29-year-old Lalli, who went 2 for 15 at the plate for the Cubs in 2012.
Though Roenicke doesn't doubt all five can catch in spring training, he wants a guy who can actually step up and work with his staff.
"I'm not worried about physically, who can catch them," Roenicke said. "But I want a guy who is going to be with us and working with these guys to get locked in, to talk about stuff between innings and what they need to work on. If a guy wants to work on his changeup at the beginning of spring training to get ready for the end, I want our catchers to know that.
"And we're not going to have our two regular guys there, so it's going to be difficult."
But once the World Baseball Classic is over for the United States and Puerto Rico, the Brewers will be back to having strength behind the plate.
Lucroy, 26, hit .320 with 12 home runs and 59 RBI in just 96 games in 2012. For him, being named as one of three catchers to represent the United States was a tremendous honor and a sign of his progress since taking over as Milwaukee's everyday catcher in 2010.
"It will be a great feeling," Lucroy said. "You aren't playing for yourself or your team. You are playing for your country. I think it's pretty exciting to be a part of."
Lucroy will be joined on Team USA by Ryan Braun, who joked last weekend that he didn't know the United States brought along bullpen catchers.
"That's what Braunie said," Lucroy said. "I'm missing spring training so I can go be a bullpen catcher on Team USA."
When Lucroy suffered a broken hand last season, Maldonado proved he was capable of being a big league catcher. The Brewers knew he could play defense at a high level, but Maldonado showed an ability to hit with a bit of pop.
Hitting just .198 for Triple-A Nashville at the time of his call-up, Maldonado batted .266 with eight home runs and 30 RBI in 78 games for the Brewers.
"We're very fortunate to have two guys who both could be everyday catchers," Brewers bench coach Jerry Narron said. "Lucroy last year was on track to make the All-Star team if he hadn't got hurt, and Maldy did a great job when he got here.
"We've got behind the plate covered real well."
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Western understanding of the content of Oceanic oral literature is limited. Nevertheless, a few general comments about traditional forms, types, and themes can be made. First, because the purpose of literature is to communicate, it demands an audience. In the case of an oral literature, communication depends first on memory, and this usually means that such memory aids as rhythm and stock formulas and phrases are an important element of all texts. The majority of Oceanic texts closely follow traditional forms and appear to be committed to memory; they are communicated in a strictly unvarying manner. This is, however, only approximately the case, because the various techniques of formalization can allow for a rather fluid text. The tradition can be made evident at the lexical level, with the possibility of a great freedom of syntax. It only prevents prosodic elements from taking on primary importance.
The literary occasions of the Oceanian peoples are, as in other cultures, reflected in sacred literature, political literature, and frivolous—even erotic—texts. This division, however, should not be taken to represent an attempt at classification; any such pigeonholing would be inconvenient indeed, because such a large number of texts straddle two categories. But there are certainly two poles between which the various forms of literary expression can be placed. On the one hand, there is a body of works that appeals to Western readers and is made accessible to them by its use of the poetic image. On the other hand, there are many texts, often brief, in which each word is frequently a complete image. This kind of text is part and parcel of the culture that has produced it and requires a veritable arsenal of commentaries of others to interpret the key words and to unravel its significance to nonnative readers. Texts are, basically, of two kinds: recitatives and public orations. Recitatives—the songs or chants that accompany dances (whether the performers be standing or seated), funeral chants, songs that accompany children's games, and those with an erotic significance—are formally rigid; they may be expanded but not transformed. Public orations, in which the elements are formally but roughly organized, give the speaker the right to vary the presentation within certain limits established for this literary genre. Such discourses, which can aptly be delivered as a high-level political oration and as a funeral eulogy or remembrance speech, can also, in a simpler form, commemorate such a birth, a marriage, or another life stage.
The themes of Oceanic literature differ little from those found in other literatures of the world: love and death, defiance and hatred, nostalgia for the past, and the pleasure of the moment. Nature provides the necessary imagery. Nevertheless, Oceanic literature differs considerably from that of other cultures. Although it presents a familiar mental universe, it does so in what is often an allusive manner that demands an intimate knowledge of local place-names, local political geography, and land division before its full meaning can be understood: the owl, for example, is symbolic of a given place, the lizard of another, and the sea eagle associated with a third.
Melanesian oral literatures are better known to contemporary scholarship than are Polynesian because they were less accessible to Western anthropologists and scholars, and, as a result, the literature was not distorted. Because of this, they are of great interest, although they are only just being recovered. Researchers have amassed a body of astonishingly rich oral literature and have been able to establish just what the function of each text was in the life of the society they studied. The results of their work have obliged scholars to reexamine their conceptions of the oral literary tradition. It has emerged that not even words, symbols, or places have any fixed significance: the vocabulary is at once coherent and diversified, for it is used in a way that takes into account the momentary interest of the parties present.
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A traditional speech may be "hurled" by a speaker to a crowd, which typically responds with a muffled cry at the end of each "sentence." It is the quality of accord reached between the crowd and the speaker that comprises the "new content" of the familiar, traditional speech (henceforth becoming part of its tradition), while the accord also conveys what other cultures would call the "message"—the new stage in a rising political career, perhaps, or a declaration denoting peace between combatants or the beginning of a war. Anyone analyzing the speech itself has to search for and consider carefully all the possible interpretations and temporal conditions it might have. The traditional form of the speech is respected all the more because it allows this variation of content—within acceptable limits—to be conveyed by nuances that may easily escape observers from other cultures.
The form of the speech also presents a somewhat thorny problem. On the surface, it is a simple enumeration of the local groups and their symbols (that is, the portion of the land that is theirs, together with its animals, plants, weather conditions, and so on). The recitation of these physical realities is an affirmation of their very society, and they are stated one after the other, linked by some stock connecting phrase. Each listed item is given its precise geographic location; of special importance are the names of special places where authority is exercised or where rites are practiced. The whole constitutes a world vision, or system, in which the individual society and its members have their place. The native audience is perfectly familiar with the spatial affirmation of their society contained in the speech, and, from the dry enumeration of its components, they are able to supply for themselves a history of alliances and wars and to remodel the traditional text until it fits the conditions of the present. The orator's delivery, the nuances he maintains or introduces into the speech, are a sign of his success.


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The Textile World Innovation Forum 2014 will be a two-day, high-level conference targeting management personnel in engineering, processing, plant operations, research and development, and quality control. The forum will offer these professionals unique insights into diverse areas of textile manufacturing such as fiber, spinning, knitting, weaving, nonwovens, dyeing, printing, finishing, apparel manufacturing, and special interest areas that may be adapted to their own operations.
The inaugural conference will be held Sept. 15 and 16, 2014, at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta and will culminate with the presentation of the Textile World Innovation Award to a leading textile company in recognition of its outstanding efforts and accomplishments in product invention and innovation.
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: Jeffrey D. Beish
Mars appears more Earth-like to us than most of the other planets because we can observe its surface, atmospheric clouds and hazes, and its brilliant white polar caps. The latter are composed of frozen CO2 and underlying water ice, and wax and wane during the Martian year. These aspects, along with the changing seasons and the possibility of life, have made Mars one of the most studied planets in our solar system.
The Red Planet Mars offers both casual and serious observers many challenges and delights, as well as providing astronomers a laboratory to study another planet's atmosphere and surface. Some Martian features even appear to shift position around the surface over extended periods of time.
There are several cooperating international Mars observing programs under way to assist both professional and amateur astronomers. These include the International Mars Patrol (I.M.P.) coordinated by the Mars Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (A.L.P.O), the International MarsWatch and the Terrestrial Planets Section of the British Astronomical Association (B.A.A.).
Information for observing Mars during a typical apparition is presented in a separate report titled, "General Information for Apparitions of Mars." Also, you can find gobs of information at this site.
With the advent of modern CCD camera technology the amateur can produce useful images of Mars when it is as small as 3.5 arcsec . Early in an apparition, Mars rises in the east or morning sky and sets with the rotation of the Earth in the western or evening sky. During the past few apparitions (2001-2016), observers began to take CCD images when Mars was only 30 degrees away from the Sun. Since Mars was only a visual magnitude of ~1.8 then the planet would have been difficult to locate bright twilight hours.
In the pre-apparition reports the observer will find the motion of Mars in our sky, the characteristics for that particular apparition, information pertaining to the polar cap(s) and any special events that may be seen during that particular apparition. As usual a calendar of events will be included with each report that contains cardinal dates for seasonal activity and orbital information of Mars.
As a general rule, an "apparition" begins when a planet emerges from the glare of the Sun shortly after conjunction. Mars will be in conjunction with the Sun on July 26, 2017 (38.9° Ls); however, it will not be safe to observe Mars until after September 02, 2017 when it is at least 12 degrees away from the glare of the Sun.
The apparent declination of Mars begins at 13.3° in early September 2017 in the constellation Leo and during mid-October will descend south into the constellations Virgo. Two weeks later Mars will be south of the celestial equator throughout the apparition until January 02, 2019 when Mars will begin to ascend in declination. This is not good news for those observing in the Northern Hemispheres because Mars will be seen fairly low in their sky during the entire apparition. Good news for southern hemisphere observers however. The declination of Mars will continue to descend south of the celestial equator reaching -23.6° by March 26, 2018 and will remain below -20° until October 16, 2018. After that Mars will cross from the constellation Caprcornus into Aquarius in early-November and ascend northward for the remainder of 2018 to cross north of the celestial equator in January 2019.
By March 24, 2018, a '0.4' visual magnitude Mars will be seen rising early in the morning sky in the constellation Sagittarius and it will be at western quadrature with the phase defect or terminator of 40.2°. NOTE: The Solar Elongation for Mars is the angle between the lines of sight from Earth to the Sun and from Earth to Mars. When these lines of sight form a right triangle then Mars is at quadrature (eastern or western). For detailed definitions and graphics for the motion of Mars in our sky see these excellent web sites: Planetary Aspects and Elongations and Configurations.
Figure 1. A heliographic chart of the orbits of Mars and the Earth showing the relative positions of both planets. Quadrature is when Mars is directly east or west of Earth as shown.
The 2018 apparition of Mars begins retrogression, or retrograde motion against the background stars eleven months after on June 28, 2018 (201.1° Ls) and continues through August 27, 2018 (238.2° Ls). Each night for this brief period of time; before, during and after opposition the Red Planet will appear to move backwards toward the western sky in the
Caprcornus .
Since the Martian year is about 687 Earth days long -- nearly twice as long as ours, the Martian seasons are similarly extended. While the Earth's seasons are nearly equal in duration, the Martian seasons can vary by as much as 52 days from each other due to that planet's greater orbital eccentricity (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. A heliographic chart of the orbits of Mars and the Earth showing the relative seasons of both planets in the planetocentric longitude system Ls. Graphic Ephemeris for the 2018 Perihelic Apparition of Mars. Original graph prepared by C.F. Capen and modified by J.D. Beish.
Another general rule for predicting oppositions of Mars is from the following: the planet has an approximate 15.8-year periodic opposition cycle, which consists of three or four Aphelic oppositions and three consecutive Perihelic oppositions. Perihelic oppositions are also called "favorable" because the Earth and Mars come closest to each other on those occasions. We sometimes refer to this as the seven Martian synodic periods. This cycle is repeated every 79 years (± 4 to 5 days) and, if one were to live long enough, one would see this cycle nearly replicated in approximately 284 years. The 2018 Mars apparition is considered Perihelic because the orbital longitude at opposition will be 32.1° from the longitude of perihelion (251° Ls).
NOTE: Ls is the planetocentric longitude of the Sun along the ecliptic of Mars' sky. 0° Ls is defined as that point where the Sun crosses the Martian celestial equator from south to north, that is the planet's northern hemisphere vernal equinox. The other Ls values that define the beginnings of Martian northern hemisphere seasons are: summer, 90° Ls; autumn, 180° Ls; and winter, 270° Ls. For Mars' southern hemisphere these values represent the opposite seasons. Distance (A.U.) - Distance from Earth to Mars in astronomical units, where one (1) A.U. equals 92,955,807.267 miles or 149,597,870.691 km.
Opposition occurs 12 months after conjunction when Mars is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. At that time, the two planets will lie nearly in a straight line with respect to the Sun, or five weeks after retrogression begins. Opposition will occur at 0507 UT on July 27, 2018 (218.9° Ls) with an apparent planetary disk diameter of 24.3 arcsec. Mars will remain visible for more than 12 months after opposition and then become lost in the glare of the Sun around July 27, 2019 as it approaches the next conjunction (September 02, 2019). The cycle is complete in 780 Earth days. .
Closest approach occurs at 0751 UT on July 31, 2018 (221.4° Ls) with an apparent planetary disk diameter of 24.3'' at a distance of 0.3849704 astronomical units (AU) or 35,785,234 mi (57,590,751-km). During closest approach in 2018 the apparent diameter of Mars will be 5.7 arcsec larger than it was at the same period in 2016 and it will be 4.4 degrees higher in the sky – not quite as good for observing the Red Planet for observers in the northern hemisphere. It should also be noted that closest approach between Earth and Mars is not necessarily coincident with the time of opposition but varies by as much as two weeks.
Figure 3. A simulated view of the appearance of Mars during opposition at 0507 UT on July 27, 2018 (218.9° Ls, CM 143.9°)
The observable disk diameter of Mars will be greater than 6 arcsec from February 12, 2018 [-21.4°
d ] (128.3° Ls) and will not fall below this value until February 06, 2019 (336.4° Ls), lasting 11.9 months or 208 degrees Ls. Imaging by CCD devices may begin with a disk diameter of 4.3 arcsec or more, commencing on or about December 05, 2017.
The Sub-Earth (De) and Sub-Solar (Ds) points are graphically represented in Figures 4 and 5. The 2017-2019 Ephemeris of Mars is tabulated on Internet in this web site. A glossary of Terms appears at the end of this table.
Figure 4. As it approaches Earth, it will swell from a small apparent disk of 6" in February 12, 2018 to a maximum diameter on July 31, 2018, and then shrink as it moves away. Closest approach occurs on July 31, 2018 (Opposition July 27, 2018). Images shown at 0h UT.
Figure 5. Graphic Ephemeris of Mars during the 2018 apparition from February 13, 2018 through February 05, 2019. Opposition and 6 arcsec apparent diameter range arc indicated. Plot illustrates the Declination (black line), the latitude of the Sub-Earth point (De) or the apparent tilt ( brown line ) in areocentric degrees, and the latitude of the Sub-Solar point ( green line ) in areocentric degrees. The areocentric longitude (Ls) of the Sun, shown along the bottom edge of the graph defines the Martian seasonal date. The value of Ls is 0° at the vernal equinox of the northern hemisphere, 70° when Mars is at aphelion, and 90° at the summer solstice of the northern hemisphere 251° when Mars is at perihelion, and 180° is northern autumn.
Figure 6. Graphic Ephemeris of Mars from February 13, 2018 through February 05, 2019. Plot illustrates the apparent diameter of Mars in seconds of arc. The areocentric longitude (Ls) of the Sun, shown along the bottom edge of the graph defines the Martian seasonal date.
Astronomers will have a view of the Martian South Polar Region (SPR) will be tilted toward the Earth and will remain so throughout the apparition when it reaches 0° De on March 04, 2018 and should be free of its hood. For more detailed information on the the south polar cap click to this web site.
Observations of Mars indicate that major dust storms tend to be more frequent when Mars is closest to the Sun – during southern hemisphere spring and summer. While predicting these events is nearly impossible to make our studies show that the Martian dusty season should begin about the first week in April (241° Ls) throughout the middle of October 2018 (270° Ls). The highest probability of dust storms occurring will be on or about September 23, 2018 (255° Ls) and a sensitive area for the development of dust storms is in northwest
Massive, planet-encircling storms usually occur in southern hemisphere summer and that will come by the end of December (315° Ls). Observers should be alert for dust clouds in the northeast
Table 2. CALENDAR OF EVENTS -- MARS, 2017 - 2019
2017 Jul 27 |
Ls 38.9° |
Conjunction. Mars is behind the Sun ~2.655 AU. |
2017 Oct 06 |
Ls 70° |
Mars at Aphelion.
Is NPC fairly static or entering rapid retreat phase. Watch for "Aphelic Chill" in NPR (usually between 60° and 70° Ls). NPC Rima Tenuis may appear. Antarctic hazes, hood. |
2017 Nov 20 |
Ls 90° |
Solstice - Northern Summer/Southern Winter.
clouds over the Tharsis volcanoes – W-Cloud? Local seasonal clouds should wrap around Syrtis Major and be prominent in Lybia. |
2018 Feb 12 |
Ls 128.3° |
Apparition begins for observers using 4-inch to 8-inch apertures telescopes and up. Begin low-resolution CCD imaging. Views of surface details not well defined. Novus Mons reduced to a few bright patches and soon disappears. Is Mare Acidalium broad and dark? Bright spots in Tempe-Arcadia-Tharsis-Amazoins? "Domino effect" appears around 120° - 125° Ls. Topographic clouds increase. (NPC Width ~14° ±3°). |
2018 Mar 25 |
Ls 148.6° |
Mars at quadrature.
Are both polar hoods visible? SPH present and edge of NPH visible. |
2018 Apr 20 |
Ls 162.1° |
Is Mare Acidalium broad and dark? Bright spots in Tempe-Arcadia-Tharsis-Amazoins? "Domino effect" appears around 120° - 125° Ls. Topographic clouds increase. |
2018 May 09 |
Ls 172.4° |
Is the North Polar Hood present? Does SPH or frost cover |
2018 May 23 |
Ls 180° |
Equinox - Northern Autumn/Southern Spring .
South Polar Cap (SPC) maximum width. Is the North Polar Hood present? Does SPH or frost cover |
2018 Jun 26 |
Ls 200° |
Retrogression Begins.
Mars begins retrogression, or retrograde motion against the background stars 11 months after conjunction, when it appears to move backwards toward the west for a brief period before, during and after opposition. SPC shrinking. Syrtis Major darkens and continues to shrink. W-clouds possible. Surface details increasing in contrast Hellas the features Zea Locus and |
2018 Jul 27 |
Ls 218.7° |
Mars at Opposition.
Bright SPC projection Novissima Thyle (300°W - 330°W) Areographic longitude. Dark rift Rima Augusta connected from 60° to 270° longitude. Rima Australis visible in SPC (290°-350°W)? W-clouds possible. SPC bright projection Argenteus Mons (10°W-20°W). SPC Dust clouds in Serpentis-Hellespontus, in |
2018 Jul 31 |
Ls 221.2° |
Mars at Closest Approach.
Bright SPC projection Novissima Thyle (300°W - 330°W) Areographic longitude. Dark rift Rima Augusta connected from 60° to 270° longitude. Rima Australis visible in SPC (290°-350°W)? W-clouds possible. SPC bright projection Argenteus Mons (10°W-20°W). SPC Dust clouds in Serpentis-Hellespontus, in |
2018 Aug 27 |
Ls 238.2° |
Retrogression Ends. Mars begins westward motion against the background stars. SPC rapid retreat. Novus Mons small, bright, and high-contrast. Rima Australis widens. SPC isolated bright spot at 155° longitude? Any white patches near -20° latitude may brighten. Atmosphere of Mars very clear during Ls 240°- 250°. Occasional morning limb hazes. Dust clouds? Note: Several "planet-encircling dust storms have been reported during this season at 24° Ls. (SPC width ~28° ±3°). |
2018 Sep 15 |
Ls 251° |
Mars at Perihelion . SPC in rapid retreat. Novus Mons smaller. Dust clouds expected over Serpentis-Hellaspontus (Ls 250° - 270°). Syrtis Major beginning to narrow. Frost in bright deserts? Orographic clouds (W-clouds) possible. Elysium and Arsia Mons bright? Note: Several "planet-encircling dust storms have been reported during this season. High probability 255° Ls. (SPC width ~ 24° ±3°). |
2018 Oct 16 |
Ls 270° |
Solstice - Northern Winter/Southern Summer. W-clouds present? NPH extends 50° N? Decreased number of White clouds. "Syrtis Blue Cloud"? White areas in deserts? Dust clouds in south until 270° Ls? Watch for planetary system clouds bands. Orographic cloud over Arsia Mons? Syrtis Major is narrow. (SPC width ~ 17° ±2°). |
2018 Oct 31 |
Ls 279.2° |
NPH extends 50° N? White clouds rare. Dust storm? Frost patches? Dust storms visible at 285° Ls (Martin & Zurek). |
2018 Nov 21 |
Ls 292.1° |
Bright SPC projection Novissima Thyle (300°W - 330°W) Areographic longitude. Dark rift Rima Augusta connected from 60° to 270° longitude. Rima Australis visible in SPC (290°-350°W)? W-clouds possible. SPC bright projection Argenteus Mons (10°W-20°W). SPC Dust clouds in Serpentis-Hellespontus, in |
2018 Dec 21 |
Ls 310.0° |
2019 Feb 06 |
Ls 336.4° |
2019 Mar 23 |
Ls 0° |
Equinox - Northern Spring/Southern Autumn . North Polar Hood (NPH) breaking up, North Polar Cap (NPC) should be exposed. ("Areo-" is a prefix often employed when referring to Mars or "Ares.") |
2019 Sep 02 |
Ls 77.3° |
Conjunction. Mars is behind the Sun ~2.67AU. |